Purses, Pockets and Family Secrets

Music by Bonia Shur

Purses, Pockets and Family Secrets is a performance and healing ceremony that explores the manner in which family and cultural secrets are often passed on through generations. Fanchon is both performer and ceremonial leader with two mover/shamans. Through theater and ritual, the performer reveals secrets which become all of our secrets. These hidden messages have inhibited our potential for ecstasy in our communities. Three hundred feet of gauze symbolizes the covers we have put on our wounds. Healing from the wounds with large bowls of water, we begin to ritually wash away the shame and humiliation which scar the very soul of our people.